Offbeat Cover for December, 2011

December 2011 Contents

Cover Story

Ratty Scurvics’ Star Time

Features

A Busy Year for Curren$y and Fiend’s JETS Crew

Sing a Song of Santa: New Christmas Albums

The Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore

The Music Box in the Bywater: A House in E Major

The Songs of the 2009-2010 New Orleans Saints

BackTalk

Ani DiFranco

Photo Op

Saints Nuns

OffBeat Eats

Boudin or Bust

Daiquiri Days: White Russians and Soulja Slims

Dining Out: Martin Wine Cellar

Shannon Powell Hits the Spot at Willie Mae’s Scotch House

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Bill Summers

Fresh

Back to the Best of the Beat Awards

Christmas Concerts

Punk Lived in New Orleans

Step-N-Strut Trail Ride: Too Many Steps?

The Joy Theater: A Time of Joy

Yo Gabba Gabba!: Time to Dance

Obituaries

Obituary: Billy Diamond (1916-2011)

Obituary: Kenny Holladay (1957-2011)

Reviews

Big History, All At Once EP (Independent)

Big Pearl, Double Faces (Independent)

Burke Ingraffia, Jazz Animals (Independent)

Camile Baudoin and the Living Rumors, Old Bayou Blues (Threadhead Records)

Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole, Le Soleil Est Levé (Independent)

Corey Ledet, Do You Want More? (Independent)

Elespee and Prospek, Quantumetaphysicadillac Music (Guerilla Publishing Company)

Lawrence Walker, Essential Collection (Swallow Records)

Papa Grows Funk, Needle in the Groove (Funky Krewe Records)

Steve Cropper, Dedicated: A Salute to the 5 Royales (429 Records)

e.company, On (Independent)

Bookmark

Daniel Beaumont, Preachin’ the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House (Oxford University Press)

Tom Piazza, Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America (Harper Perennial)

Mojo Mouth

A Year of Growth

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Korpiklaani at the Hangar December 11

Letters

December 2011 Letters